Hints and tips:
...C’mon, I know there wasn’t an ounce of authenticity in some of the traffic-light curries (“red, yellow or green?”) slung over the counter in the saloon bar of The Old Stabbed Rat....
...“It certainly requires every ounce of tact and diplomacy and strategy that he can bring to bear, but I think he is up to the task.”...
...For 2023, the biggest single contributor to operating profit was the infrastructure business, with £1.1bn....
...“You may recall this very famous Chinese saying that a thousand-mile journey starts with a single step,” he tells me before we say our goodbyes. “I’ve taken my single step!”...
...The pace of inflation is expected to moderate next year towards mid-single digits. When real bond yields drop, gold tends to rise. Experienced executives should be in demand....
...“It gives us the ability to grow, to talk to our clients and ensure that we do have in place some diversification away from just a single provider,” he said....
...Hathaway said more deals were likely — particularly single-asset companies being swallowed up by larger groups. But he warned: “Whether these mergers make sense is another question.”...
...The EU single market is 30 years old this week....
...But really, she’s talking straight to the audience, unpacking every ounce of humour in Russell’s witty script. “Marriage is like the Middle East, isn’t it? There’s no solution,” she quips....
...But certain provisions, such as a tax on sugary drinks, processed foods and single-use plastics, are likely to worry them....
...Meanwhile, the price of spot gold, which dipped 0.1 per cent to $1,896 a troy ounce on Monday, has gained about 5 per cent since the end of January....
...Some, including Johnson’s patriotic promise to put a “crown stamp” on pint glasses in pubs and to allow traders to sell their wares in pounds and ounces, are primarily symbolic....
...Boris Johnson’s government has promised it will legislate to allow British traders to sell their wares in pounds and ounces, rather than grammes and kilos, as it unveiled plans to seek a deregulatory dividend...
...The price of spot gold fell more than 1 per cent to $1,921 a troy ounce....
...The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six other currencies, dropped 1.1 per cent, while gold fell 2.9 per cent to $1,993 a troy ounce....
...Meanwhile, London’s FTSE 100 closed 3.9 per cent higher — recovering the previous day’s declines in its biggest single-day advance since November 2020....
...The same is true in gas markets, where no single country can replace the kind of volume that Russia can supply....
...Marcos has been pretty quiet but she begins to get competitive over who managed to buy more stuff on a single Parisian minibreak....
...Gold production is the largest source of revenue in Kyrgyzstan and Kumtor is the biggest single contributor to its gross domestic product....
...And, you know, every single day, your, your portfolio was fluctuating by thousands and thousands. Things were getting really heated up....
...The metal, used by investors as a store of value in times of stress, has climbed more than 5 per cent this month and broke above $1,900 a troy ounce on Friday before easing back to $1,888....
...Around $1bn flowed into silver-backed ETFs on a single day in January, after comments on the Reddit online forum, called WallStreetBets, erroneously suggested that US investment banks were suppressing the...
...The greatest leap has been made in the EU’s single currency zone....
...Gold gained 1.5 per cent to $1,779 per troy ounce, while the dollar traded 0.6 per cent lower against a basket of currencies....
...The euro slipped 0.1 per cent against the dollar to $1.1904, taking the single currency’s fall to 2.6 per cent this month....
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